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There's a new kind of planet to add to Kepler's cornucopia of alien worlds, and you won't find it in Earth's own solar system. Many of the newfound orbs, described here today (Jan. 6) at a meeting of the American Astrono...

This fascinating space wallpaper shows the caterpillar-shaped knot, called IRAS 20324+4057, which is a protostar in a very early evolutionary stage. It is still in the process of collecting material from an envelope of g...

A new image from a powerful telescope in Chile reveals massive amounts of dust created in the remnants of an exploded star for the first time.

Record-breaking cold winter temperatures today (Jan. 6) means global warming must be a farce, right? Wrong, and here's why.

Rice University scientists have pioneered a tabletop magnetic pulse generator that does the work of a room-sized machine - and more.

In a new paper, authors show evidence indicating the presence of autocrine/paracrine EPO in the conditioned medium of cultured breast cancer cells and a functional role of an EPO-EPOR autocrine/paracrine loop in regulati...

Patients with diabetes who used an online patient portal to refill medications increased their medication adherence and improved their cholesterol levels, according to a new study.

Inhibitors of both JAK and Src kinases represent promising targets for cancer therapeutics because of the central importance of these kinases in tumor cell proliferation and survival. This research article describes MLS-...

The increased activation of a key oncogene in head and neck cancers could be the result of mutation and dysfunction of regulatory proteins that are supposed to keep the gene, which has the potential to cause cancer, in c...

SpaceX will launch the THAICOM 6 satellite from its Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The livestream will begin at 4 26 p.m. EST while the launch window begins at 5:06 p.m. EST.

The brightly patterned floors of an ancient Greek palace were painted to mimic patchworks of textiles and stone masonry -- an innovative way Bronze Age artists decorated palatial rooms, a new study finds.

Poor and marginalised groups such as women, the elderly, people with a disability and those from ethnic minorities experience unfair allocation of resources (or sometimes none at all) and bore a disproportionate burden o...

The power of graphs and pictures, and the anecdotes they can evoke, are also powerful means by which people can be misled, inadvertently or otherwise.

Following a series of weekend winter storms across the northern U.S., below-freezing temperatures have gripped large swaths of the county and thrown many Americans into hardcore survival mode. In New York City, temperatu...

Researchers were able to get a good look at a recent supernova and discovered an incredible cloud of dust surrounding the remains of the exploded star. The amount of dust formed by the supernova could explain why early u...

Skeletons of ancient hunter-gatherers from Morocco reveal extensive tooth decay, likely from a carbohydrate-rich diet of acorns.

Metastatic breast cancer cells evade the brain's defences by evolving characteristics unique to neurons and co-opting their energy source     

Tooth decay is supposed to be a modern disease, caused by eating starchy crops, but it first became common thousands of years before the origin of farming     

From 1999 to 2011, men accounted for nearly 70 percent of hypothermia-related deaths in the United States.

Nature, in some situations, can do more than people to restore wetlands.

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered novel compounds produced by certain types of chemical reactions -- such as those found in vehicle exhaust or grilling meat -- that are hundreds of times more mutagen...

An ancient little carnivore was one of the first meat-eating mammals on the planet, but its origins remain shrouded in mystery. The extinct creature, its teeth found fossilized in Belgium, was a tree-dweller.